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City of the Damned |
The Gatehouse |
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 You start out on a platform looking towards an entranceway. Behind you is a surrounding ledge with a switch on either side above. As soon as you jump down from the platform and head through the entrance, you're attacked by Gargoyles. This time some of them hurl fireballs at you. Your Claw easily dispenses with them. Take either of the wooden doors, facing another fireball hurling Gargoyle as you enter the building. Follow the left path fighting Gargoyles as you go, retrieve a torch at the end and make your way back to follow the path on the right.
 Kill another Gargoyle and open another wooden door. You
enter a flickering hallway containing more Gargoyles as well as five Raven crested
pedestals that lower briefly as you pass through the doorway. Grab the goodies
as needed, making your way past the Gold and Green Doors to a wooden one that
doesn't require a key.
Dispense with the Golems, retrieve a Quartz Flask that triggers a wall to reveal a gaggle of Gargoyles. Greet them, exit through the other wooden door and destroy several more Golems. Make your way to an alcove on the left to kill another Golem and retrieve a Crossbow. Kill another group of Golems that attack from a triggered open area behind you.
Wind around to your left through a room with a small barrier of barrels, into another room on your left with a Golem guarding a Shadowsphere. Picking it up means a wall behind it will lower immediately and two Undead Warriors will attack you. Dispose of them, make your way back and around to another room on your left, which contains the Gold Key and a Golem protecting it. Undead Warriors attack you from outside through a window, and you'll also have to contend with three other Undead Warriors from a triggered area behind you before you can safely retrieve the key.
Head back, picking up goodies as needed along the way
and enter the Gold Door that's in the hall with the Raven crested moving pedestals.
Gargoyles and Golems emerge from a triggered alcove in front of you, as well as
from the circular paths on either side of you. After dispensing with the pleasantries,
grab the Ethereal Arrows from the alcove and make your way up the steps of the
right circular path.
At the top you'll meet up with some Gargoyles and some
Undead Warriors hurling green and red axes from the window of another room ahead
of you. Flip the switch on your right, opening both of the doors on either side.
Meander through either of them, fighting off Gargoyles, retrieve the Morph Ovum
and circle around to the other side. Retrace your steps to make your way up the
left circular path, which leads to an outside area.
Kill some Gargoyles and a Golem and flip the switch to your left which opens the door to the tower outside. Take the path that winds around to your left and kill some Golems. Nab the Bag of Holding, and the Gauntlets if you need them and hit the switch, which you'll find has released some Golems outside.
Make your way back out, kill the freed Golems and wade
quickly through the painful little swamp in the corner to retrieve the Ring of
Invincibility and some other goodies. Around the right side of the tower, collect
some Arrows behind a little barrier before taking the steps up the tower through
a narrow entranceway in the back. At the top, you'll find two Undead Warriors
guarding the Green Key and a portal. Take the Warriors' undead lives, grab the
key and enter the portal.
You're now back at the beginning entrance. Make note of the wall to your left, then walk ahead to the alcove with the Silver Shield and the switch that are now available to you. Shield yourself and flip the switch, which opens the wall you made note of, and enter the portal within.
You're now on the middle ledge with the Tome of Power. Use it to help you defeat the onslaught of flame throwing Gargoyles, jump down to trigger the wall opposite the one containing the portal you just went through and enter the portal revealed behind it. This one takes you to the much more extensive ledge that wraps around the entire area.
Contend with another horde of Gargoyles and then wander around the ledge picking up items as you go. Flipping the two switches on either side lowers respective goodies for your Crossbow and Claw. Jump down into the well containing the Claw and then retrieve all of the scattered items that you can hold.
As you head back towards the Green Door, you notice an exit to the water outside has been opened. Grab the Tome of Power as you walk through and take a watery dunk, fighting the currents to retrieve the goodies on the other side. Use your Morph Ovum on the mob of Undead Warriors that emerge behind you and cut them quickly down to feathery size.
It's finally time to make it back and enter the Green Door. Destroy some Golems within and notice the two switches on either side of you. Flip the webbed switch to your left, which lowers the double Raven crested wall portion in front of you. Kill the Undead Warrior within and then flip the other switch, which lowers the pedestal up to the blue switch. Ride it back up to the top and flip the switch. Still
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